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THREE months ago, Hollywood hears, Gary Cooper had a long telephone conversation with Lupe Velez in which he vainly tried to dissuade her from marrying Johnny Weissmuller. And if Gary actually made such a call — when he hung up the receiver, he must have bolted and barred the door of a torrid romance that had occupied his attention for three years. For the first time since he met Lupe, he must have felt really free to love another woman. Anyway, he has fallen in love with someone else — a girl, moreover, who at last meets the critical approval of his father and mother.
Almost immediate ly after that telephone conversation was alleged to have taken place, he came to one of the biggest turning points in his life. He rushed out and fell in love with SanLeft, Gary Cooper and his fiancee, Sandra S h a w — w h o was born into New York's Four Hundred as Veronica Balfe. Above, a close-up of the girl Gary is marrying
dra Shaw, young screen newcomer. Within two months, their engagement was formally announced. Gary sealed Sandra's promise to marry him with an elaborate ring — an emerald-cut diamond of almost eight carats, set with small baguette diamonds and crescent clusters of small rubies. With this he presented a narrow guard, which was mistaken by hungryeyed reporters for a wedding ring.
The engagement was the most sudden decision in Gary's deliberate life. As one of the most eligible bachelors in the film colony, Gary has been involved in many romances, real and rumored. Most of them have been of long duration, but never before this has one of them resulted in marriage — or even a formal engagement.
And the chief reasons for Gary's long bachelorhood, Hollywood has always believed, were his parents, the ultra-conservative Judge and Mrs. Cooper — who have been (so legend has it) strongly opposed to all of his previous affairs of the heart. Years ago, when it seemed that Gary might marry Clara Bow, his parents were reported to be frantic. Then, when he devoted himself to Lupe Yelez, their anxiety was pictured as intense. Finally, their patience was depicted as snapping when the Countess Dorothy di Frasso came to Hollywood and monopolized Gary. Judge and Mrs. Cooper made no effort to conceal their disapproval. To friends, they pointed out
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